Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	knight_n	sir_n	thomas_n	12,947	5	9.6515	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51369	Armilogia, sive, Ars chromocritica The language of arms by the colours & metals being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world : whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles : a work of this nature never yet extant / by Sylvanus Morgan ...	Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.	1666 (1666)	Wing M2738; ESTC R16382	99,548	200

Pandarus wherehence The blood of Menelaus down to the Calves and Ancles to the Ground For nothing decks a Souldier so as doth an honour'd wound The Shield of Walmesley seems to have a reference to that Minerva it being Gules on a Chief Ermine two Heurts these Blue Balls being as it were the eyes of Minerva for these whose eyes are of this kind of Aereal Colour Tanquam Minervae filii are said to be most ingenious Unde Minerva Glaucopis dicatur Hence it is that the Owl is dedicated to her and signifieth prudent men Wisdome saith Ego rotunditatem Coelorum circumivi sola Ecles 24. Et in profunditatem Abyssorum ambulavi in fluctibus maris in tota terra Marcus Agrippa was honoured with an Azure Banner from Augustus after a Victory obtained by him in the Sicilian Sea Again if you consider the Martial Field she comes forth armed with a Crystal Shield for God having made man unarmed gave him therefore a perspicuous understanding and reason to arm himself the Chief representing the most superiour part of Man the natural power of the inferiour Air being nothing else but Vita vaporis which if we follow the common Path by this Line separating it from the starry Heaven we may find that the Shield as well as the Air hath three Regions whereof the highest is exceeding hot fitly represented by the Chief indented by reason of its Vicinitude to the fiery Element and Stars by the force of whose Beam it receiveth heat and so being charged upon may signifie one whose active heat hath kindled his undertakings The second or middle Region which is always cold is fitly represented by the Nebule or waved Line for that as that Region of its own nature would be warmer were it not cooled by a cold Occasion by the reflection of the Sun Beams So this may aptly signifie a Person whose fortune frowns and keeps him under though IN ANGVSTIIS ELEVATVR The lower Region is something contrary to the former for it is said to be hot and moist fitly represented by the ingrailed Line hot by reason of the Sun Beams meeting with the Earth and moist by reason of the proper Nature of the Air being partly indented and partly waved And thus very fitly by these Elementary Qualities are signified men of different Qualities and by each of these Charges is signified mens several Talents all Meteors being of three sorts either fiery watery or airy to which Lines are suited in the SPHERE of GENTRY and are of several fashions according to diverse disposing of the Matter so the reward was always suited to the Bearer The Heralds made the people peace the Seniors then did bear The voiceful Heralds scepters sate within a sacred Sphere On polish'd stones and gave by turns their sentence in the Court Two Talents Gold were given to him that judged in justest sort So that here is the just Law of Arms in the Court of Honour having a Peny of Plate for the just Plaintiff and a Bezant of Gold for the just Judge polished Stones Torteauxes Heurts Pomises and Gunstons for in the Shield of Achilles there was two Cities that of Political Nobility and that of Martial Ornament bestowing Military Rewards on Military Persons and honourable Robes on Persons of civil Endowments Princes and Nobles bearing Ermine as Ensigns of Magistracy and Ornaments of Entertainments and Globes and Mounds as Signs of Government and Conquest The one did Nuptial celebrate Observing at them solemn Feasts Other where A solemn Court of Law was kept where throngs of people werr The Question was a Fiue imposed on one that slew The Friend of him that followed it and for the Fine did sue Whieh tother pleaded he had paid the adverse part deny'd And openly affirm'd he had no penny satisfi'd Volvuntur nec fas una est consistere parte Ut coepit cursus verum est pars cuilibet aequae And see Queis sunt humanum terrestria curae The Naturalist doth attribute to the Second Days Work the appearances of many Suns and fiery Pillars and Beams and Rainbows c. But because they are effects of the fourth Days Work I shall refer them thither onely by the way note this as of the Chief as of a chief Commander It representeth Dignity ELEVOR UT FULGEAM If there be an Augmentation in Chief the Sun draws up the Cloud QUIA RESPEXIT and if it breaks forth into Beams DISSOLVAR UT SOLVAM If the Field or Chief be enlightened by Sun or Star 't is by grace and favour SPLENDOR EX ME. If with Roundles it representeth innocence IN ALTIS HABITAT those of the pure Element of Fire representing generosity OPES NON ANIMUM for the noble mind is like the Snow Ball DUM AGITUR AUGETUR And to bear Plates or Bezants is the two marks which Machivel propounds viz. Riches and Glory which as Sir Walter Raleigh saith Whoever will shoot at must set on and take off an iron Back to a weak woodden Bow that it may fit both the strong and the feeble for the weak in counsel have often as good success as those of the best judgement as may be seen by the judgement of Paris which gave the golden Ball to Venus rather then Pallas So that though Honour and Riches differ in themselves yet round Forms are attributed to Wisdome and Fortune whereof Athenaeus From Wisdome Fortune differs far And yet in works most like they are Proportion attracting the eyes and Colour delighting the Fancy the Metal giving the lively motion by its bright eye and the Line the orderly disposition of every good Coat and where the Charge hath a suitable invention it both allures the mind and charms the senses of the Bearer to do nought but noble Conclusion of this Chapter To the Honourable Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas c. Honour'd Sir BEtween Knights and Doctors of the Law hath ever been Question for Precedency since either of them hath been in credit in Commonweals as testifieth that learned Knight and Doctor of the Civil Law Sir Thomas Ridley as may appear both by the comparison that Tully maketh between Lucius Murena a Knight of Rome and Publius Sulpitius a Lawyer either of them standing for the Consulship which although it be disputable in foreign Countreys where the Civil Law is in credit yet here among us where all preferments taken from it and the Professors thereof are shut up as it were into a narrow Corner of their Profession it is without controversie and the Prioity thereof indubitable But this is the Resolution of those which are learned in the Point that in such Acts as concern Learning a Doctor is to be preferred before a Knight but in Acts that concern Military Knowledge a Knight takes place before a Doctor But in other Acts that are neither proper to the one nor to the other first are preferred such Doctors as attend about the Prince Secondly such Knights

as wait upon the Prince Thirdly such Doctors as being not about the Prince are excellent in Learning Fourthly come Knights without any place of preferment Lastly Doctors of meaner gifts and places and what esteem the Law hath for Justice sake my Lord is not unknown since the Doctor of Law gives place onely to the Divine Oracles of God and it is Justice only that beareth the Scales to balance the whole world by and that which makes it Standard is the Kings Authority by which you act Fabius was accounted the Shield of Rome for defending it by Wisdome the Round Form being the Emblem And Marcellus was accounted the Sword for his Valour Both being the proper Ensigns of a Knight both being put in your Hands and in your Arms they are not only the Hand of Power but the Ensigns of Valour and Wisdome And so the Advocate is a man at Arms. CHAP. VI. Of the visible Charges of the third Days Work in the Creation under the Regiment of Mars or the Red Shield GUles was the proper illumination of the third Days Work Gules a Border OR Verdey of Trefoils Vert. and the Partition was Party per pale Colour and Metal Though it be hard to know the disposition of the first three Days Work which was before the Creation of the Sun yet by the Creation of Light there was a manifest division of the Field per pale whereby the Waters were commanded into one place So that the Field of this Day consisted of dry Land and Sea and in the last three Days God adorned beautified and replenished the World setting in the Firmament of Heaven the Sun Moon and Stars filling the Earth with Beasts the Air with Fowl and the Sea with Fish giving to Creatures Vegetative and growing their seeds in themselves of all which in their Order And having already seen the dry Land parted by Springs and Rivers Lines and Ordinaries which are called Honourable for that like Royal Rivers they have navigable Fountains Come I now to the Earth is it is adorned with all manner of Plants with the plenty and pleasure thereof which by the virtue of Gods command INCULTA SYLVESCIT Fert Casia non culta seges totosque per agros Floret odoratis terra benigna rosis Where Casia springs unsown throughout the field And to sweet Roses unforc'd birth doth yield Grass The first thing that represents it self to the eye as a Charge is Grass and is born by Til ssey of Lancashire and that it is a good Bearing you have the Testimony of Sacred Writ And God saw that it was good this Bearing representing Humility as the Grass is trodden down and neglected yet is advanced to crown even the temples of Caesar How often have we seen that from neglected seed hath sprung up many great Palms though the Thunder of an evil Tongue no Laurel can resist nor greatness of Merit exempt which made Scipio Africanus change his Profession of Warriour to Husbandman and with the self-same hand which in the parching sand of Africa he had planted glorious Palms of Victory he did cultivate a little Farm the noble Romans accounting it an honour to be called Lentulus Piso Fabius c. from flowers and fruits answerable to which we have Lilly Rose Pear Nut c. whose Arms declare their Names Pliny was of opinion that Nature before she set her self to make the Lilly did prepare her self as it were by making the rough Draught and Model Convolunce a white and simple flower Pythagoras forbad the use of Beans onely to hint to his Scholars to avoid ambition for Magistracy though the man that sits on the Banks of Flowers in peace may prepare his Shield as in the Coat of Sir Thomas Chambrelan being a white Escoutcheon within an Orle of Cinquefoils according to Virgil's Advice Remember to provide if the Divine Glory of Tillage thou intendest thine NOCTIS NON DEFICIT HUMOR is the Glory of Generosity the Semper vive DUM OPPRIMITUR CRESGIT The Burrage is a Blue Cinquefoil ET FERT GAUDIA CORDI While the Narcissus is of golden Colour and signifieth beautiful Youth Sedges is born in Arms by the Name of Sickes and Sylvanus Comes adorn'd with rural Boughs Lillies and Fennel dangling on his Brows The noble Plantagenet is a Caterfoil Caterfoils which HIEME FLORET and is born by the noble Duke of Albemarle as a Slip of the same Plant which Scotland tried IN DIE FRIGORIS his fidelity being still verdant DUM CAETERA LANGUENT yea at such a time VT REMOTISSIMO SOLE And though Honour like a Flower BREVIS EST VSVS yet the remembrance of his Name like the lovely Amaranthus NVNQVAM LANGVESCIT The Cinquefoil is the Gillyflower of Heraldry IN QVOSCVNQVE COLORES Cinquefoils If it be Metal FVLCIT ET ORNAT Salts are the Colours of all Bodies whence they receive their Degrees of Lustre or Obscurity All Flowers are Emblems of this mortal Life STATIM LANGVENT while some Leaves are notwithstanding Symbols of Immortality FOLIVM EJVS NON DEFLVIT And what Laurel leaves signifie 't is plain VINCENTI DABITVR Augustus and Germanicus Titus and Adrian Antonius Philosophus Alexander Constantine and Theodosius were all crowned with a double Lawrel as Sages and as Emperours Chaplets being always signs of Mastership Chaplets and therefore to this Day are Masters of Societies elected by Laurel Chaplets about their Brows Laurel the crowning of Sages and Poets proceeding from a kind of Example of it which was under the old Roman Emperours the giving of Crowns of Laurel to them as the Ensigns of Degrees of Mastership in Poetry and that by Imperial Authority either by the Emperours themselves or by Counts Palatines or others having such delegate Authority having continued ever since the time of Frederick the First with Laurel a Ring also being given them as in the Letters Testimonial of Reasner and Jacobus Grasserus both Counts Palatine to Michael Bartchios Julii 8. 1618. Imperiali authoritate fronti ejus ingeniosissimae Lauream Poeticam imposuimus Crowning of Poets dextram in diviniore hac Poeseos harmonia exercitatissimam annulo aureo exornavimus And in those of Reasner to Casparus Wagnerus Decemb. 29. 1593. Te per Laurus impositionem annuli traditionem Poetam Laureatum fecimus And as Mr. Selden farther observeth as from the use of the old Empire the latter took their Example of Crowning with Laurel being anciently received into England John Skelton had the title of Laureat under Henry the Eighth And at the same time Robert Whittington called himself Grammaticae Magister Protovates Angliae in florentissima Oxoniensi Academia Laureatus And under Edward the Fourth John Kay by the title of his humble Poet Laureat dedicateth to him the Siege of Rhodes in Prose the custome of Crowning Poets continuing unto the time of Theodosius as it is observed upon Ausonius who lived then and writes Tu pene ab ipsis orsus incunabulis